Macrozamia

Taxobox
name = "Macrozamia"


image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Macrozamia communis"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Cycadophyta
classis = Cycadopsida
ordo = Cycadales
familia = Zamiaceae
genus = "Macrozamia "
genus_authority = Miq.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Macrozamia" is a genus of 38-40 species of cycads, in the family Zamiaceae, endemic to Australia. The majority of the species occur in eastern Australia in southeast Queensland and New South Wales, with one species in the Macdonnell Ranges of Northern Territory and three in southern Western Australia.The common name Burrawang, originally referring to "M. communis" in the Daruk Australian Aboriginal language, is often used for all the species in the genus.

;Species
*"Macrozamia cardiacensis" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia communis" - east coast of New South Wales
*"Macrozamia concinna" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia conferta" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia cranei" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia crassifolia" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia denisoni" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia diplomera" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia douglasii" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia dyeri" - southern coast of Western Australia
*"Macrozamia elegans" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia fawcettii" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia fearnsidei" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia flexuosa" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia fraseri" - southwestern Western Australia
*"Macrozamia glaucophylla" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia heteromera" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia humilis" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia johnsonii" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia lomandroides" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia longispina" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia lucida" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia macdonnellii" - Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory
*"Macrozamia macleayi" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia miquelii" - southeast and central Queensland
*"Macrozamia montana" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia moorei" - southeast and central Queensland
*"Macrozamia mountperriensis" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia occidua" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia parcifolia" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia pauli-guilielmi" - southeast Queensland, northeast New South Wales
*"Macrozamia platyrachis" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia plurinervia" - southeast Queensland, northeast New South Wales
*"Macrozamia polymorpha" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia reducta" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia riedlei" - southwestern Western Australia
*"Macrozamia secunda" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia serpentina" - southeast Queensland
*"Macrozamia spiralis" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia stenomera" - New South Wales
*"Macrozamia viridis" - southeast Queensland

External links

* [http://plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au/PlantNet/cycad/mackey.html The Cycad Pages: "Macrozamia"]
* [http://farrer.riv.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/m-comm.html About "Macrozamia communis"]
* [http://uk.reuters.com/article/airNews/idUKN0438081220071004 Primitive plants have hot, stinky sex] , "Reuters (Oct 4, 2007)"